Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I have bought this wonderful machine—a computer … it seems to me to be an old Testament god, with a lot of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Yahweh—a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Moyers: But if God is the god we have only imagined, how can we stand in awe of our own creation? Campbell:… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It is not easy for students to realize that to ask, as they often do, whether God exists and is merciful, just,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
